The Republican journal., 1887-08-18
Generalities.

The electric light is now used on some of the
London omnibus lines
Ericsson. the inventor, is said to have an it,
come of 100000 year.
The travel of sightsccrs to Alaska is greater
than ever before known.
Tri-wcckly fruit trains are now run from
Sacramento to Chicago and New York.
Ed. Mcdonald, Il Chicago boodler, has been
sentenced to three years in State Prison.
Temple of Chicago beat the half mile bicycle
record at Birdington, England, in lib 10.
1t is reported that a woman 60 years of age,
at Roseville, Ark, recently gave birth to twins.
The mortality in Boston during the month of
July was unusually large, owing to the intense
heat.
In some parts of Los Angeles county, CAL.
land for orange culture sells at $4,000 to $15, 900
an acre.
The British Commons have rejected the bill
allowing the construction of a tunnel under
the English channel.
The population of China is said to have de-
creased during the last forty years at the rate
of nearly a million Il year.
The potato crop on Long Island. n. V, is so
large that it Is estimated the yield will be from
400 to 600 bushels per acre.
During the first half of 1887 81 ISL persons
cmiyrated from Germany, AS against 1887
during the first half of 1856.
Captain Mckenzie, of New York, won the
first prize in the international chess tourna-
mcnt at Frankfort, Germany.
Letters at Stanley Pool from Henry NJ. Stan
ley announce that the expedition arrived at
ArnWhini Falls, june is. All we'll.
Wall paper men are gloomy, and predict Il
fall in prices in the near future. A free FIGHT,
each manufacturer for himself, will ensue.
President Bliss of the Boston and Albany
Road offers to run a fast mail train between
Boston and New York for Sl65, 900 annually.
woman was burned to death in view of Il
Catholic church in Scranton, Pa, one of those
who saw her in flames being her own daughter.
Captain John Ericsson, who has lust cclc-
bratcd his ei@hty-fourth birthday, says he is as
strong, mentally and physically. as he ever
was
An old man, the husband of !; yo,,iIg wife,
shot her in lit Of jealous rage at Bridgeport,
Conn, incting fatal wounds. Then he shot
himself dead.
Miss Sallie Mclean, the author of Cape
Cod Folks" was married recently in st. Louis
to Mr. i. l.. Green, Il miner from the Chihua-
The Woman's Suffrage Bill has been defeated
in the New Hampshire House of Representa-
tlvc>. the vote stancin" Is to 81 i'll favor of an
Indefinite roStponcment.
Rev. Dr. Ncwman's house in Washington
was lately robbed OF some silver and Il number
of the Photographic views he gathered in his
voyage around the world.
Republican prospects in Indiana are reported
as unusually bright. There are $4,000 old SOL
dicrs in the State W ho will be heard from on the
veto and r,'bcl-tay questions.
The bill to prevent the mixing of black and
white pupils in the schools has passed the Geor
@i;. legislature with only two dissenting votes.
and those from c0lorcd members.
The Texas rrohhitioni>tS concede their de-
feat by 10000. The Observation-Disclosures claim
100000 majority. Fort Worth is the only city
i'll the State that went Republican.
Mr.. p. T. Barnum has been in Vermont and
he offers 100000 to any man who will procure
the Lake Champaign sea serpent for him, pro-
yidc,l the monster is 80 feet in length.
The mother of Miss Mary lrcuc IIoyt, the
New York heiresS, is to attempt to show the
courts that her daughter is an habitril drunk
ard and unfit to control her property.
Hawaiian a,lvices to July 18th say that King
kalakaua signed the constitution July 10th.
This deprived him Of all powers but that of
drawing his salary and granting partons.
The Supreme Court of lllno, has finally de-
eide, that the Chicago Anarchists must be hang
ed. Even those WHO are opposed 80 capital
punishment will hardly deplorc this decision.
The messenger sent from New York to
Europe by Froham and >othern, to distribute
the souvenirs of the "The Highest Bidder" has
been arrested in London for violating the pos
tai laws.
The great wheat ring which has controlled
the price of wheat at san Francisco for 50 long
Il time has collapsed. Many spectators are
terribly involved. and numerous failures are
looked for.
George W. Nel>. Jr.. has arrived IN San
Francisco, hniny made the journey troin New
York on Il bicycle. He started OH Ma. II, but
lost fifteen days by rough weather. He ut tray
Ell fifty miles per day.
jerome l.. Hill, of lonkcr>, appropriated
$500, 900 worth of bonds belonging to the Lot
timer estate. of which he is an executor. and
lost it in Wall street. The brokers holding the
bonds are to be sued for restitution.
An attempt WAS made recently to blow up
the steamer Queen, of the National line, ut
New York. with dynamite The Internal ma
chine was captured before it exploded. On"
Thomas j. Mooney has been arrested.
An act. that no railroad which pays a diy-
tend of 10 per cent, on the par value of its stock
shall charge more than two cents fare per mile
per passenger. has been passed unanimously by
the New Hampshire House of Representatives.
In the Utah election the Gentile% elected two
perhaps three. members of the council branch
of the legislature, in the total of II. and three
perhaps four, in the lower house out of 4 total
of ~. The Genties consider this victory to be
by far the best they ever have been able to win.
\ private conference of Liberal tniOni>tS
was held in London recently to discuss the
means of checking the Gla,l,tonian reaction.
The speakers attributed their defeat to the en-
thl,>asm and energy of the Home Rulers and
the lack of united action by the Liberal 'nion-
lists and Conservatives.
capt r. Il. Forbes has recently prepared
>iic views of a ship and harque. exhibiting
his double tol>ail ri-. The topmasts are i'dcd
abaft the heads of the lower ma>tS, and the
square sails are robincd by the foot instead of
the head. and made to be lowered in>tca, of be
ing clewed up as in the common rig.
The Pail Mali Gazette publishes a new home
rule scheme, purporting to have heen accepted
by the Liberal leaders. This scheme gives Ire
land national legislature and executive.
There is to be no separation of | lister. Irish
members will continue to sit in the imperial
parliament in their present numbers.
N UiSIlttn lIOlH IlHClIilitll W llt ->CN ! 1Olh
Times says that Christopher Meyers, ea.ling
stakeholder in the Cincinnati Hamilton and
Dayton railroad alleged that $3,ooo,oo0 have
been distracted from the treasury of that road
and that this money was used by Ives and Stay
nor in deals i'll which they have been engaged.
1t is understood that the Oil Producers Pro
tcctivc Association have decided to wage war
against the Standard Trust Company, and it is
probable that early in September the oil coun-
try will witness the first real shut down it has
ever had. The association will meet on Sept.
2, and if a better condition of affairs does not
exist, all the drilling and producing wells will
be suspended
Spring Medicine.
Many correspo ndcnts have asked the writer
to give in the columns of the Herald a recipe
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